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Told? It's just math. If you want to change things, you have to either do it from within an existing party or wait for an existing party to implode and then maybe there is an opportunity for change.
I'm fifty. I spent a lot of fucking elections wasting my vote on third parties, thinking I was sending some kind of message or making things better, but here we are. I wasted every single vote prior to 2008. Would anything be different if I hadn't? No. Would anything be different if a bunch of people hadn't? I don't know. Maybe.
as i said before: no one knows the right answer, but there are plenty of wrong answers, we know they're wrong because we've tried them and things don't get better (and we sometimes try it again with the same results); we're only allowed to pick from among those wrong answers only.
trying anything otherwise might also be a wrong answer; but we will never know because there are plenty who will shame you if don't pick the same wrong answer they do.
Fair. Government is hard. There is no such thing as a right answer. Just shit that we find out later didn't work. I'm not happy with either of the two parties; I don't really believe in parties anyway. But here we are.
Fight the good fight, my friend, but just don't let fascism take us. My grandfather fought against the fascists in WW2, and here I am doing the same (though admittedly with way less personal risk) 80 years later. I don't like it, but it is what it is.